Spaceflights

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Bachelor of science in engineering physics
from Montana State University, 1959;
Ph.D. in astrophysics from University of Colorado,
1965; Acton was senior staff scientist with the Space Science Laboratory,
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory; after his space flight worked again
with Lockheed; since April 1997 he served as professor at the Montana State
Universities Department of Physics and Engineering.